Volume 2

Athenae Oxonienses. An exact history of all the writers and bishops who have had their education in the University of Oxford. To which are added the Fasti, or annals of the said university / By Anthony à Wood.

  • Anthony Wood
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1813-1820
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    proved, were conveyed into England to sir Henry. In his further travels also (for he was in Greece a considerable while) he met with other fragments : and was so useful in bringing to light a true copy of the works of the said author, that the said sir Henry could not but acknowledge with due commendations, what he had done in that matter. See in the eighth vol. of St. Chrysost. Tforks, published by sir Henry, pag. 215. 920, &c. This Mr. Slade, who was elder brother to Matthew Slade, whom I have mention’d among the writers, an. 16T4, died in the isle of Zant near Peloponnesus, in his return from his travels, before the publication of St. Chrysostom’s works, and was there buried. Admitted 72- Batchelors of Physic. Jul. 10. Thom. Twyne, M. of A. C. C. coll, in Oxon, afterwards a student for some years in Cambridge, was then admitted batch, of physic.—He took the degree of Dr. of that faculty at Cambridge, as I have before told you among the writers. 17. Matthew Gwinne of St. John’s coll.—See among the creations following. Besides these two, who were the only men admitted this year, were two admitted to practise, of whom Jo. Woolton, M. A. and fellow of All-s. coll, was one, son of John Wool- ton, bish. of Exeter. Batchelors of Divinity. Nov. — John Dove of Ch. Ch. Feb. 11. Franc. Godwin of Ch. Ch. Mar. 4. Rob. Abbot of Bal. coll. -George Abbot of Bal. coll. Rich. Parry of Ch. Ch. was admitted the same day.— All these, except the first, were afterwards bishops. Admitted 15. Doctor of Law. Jul. 10. Will. Wilkinson of Cambridge.—He was about this time chancellor of the diocese of Salisbury, and died about the latter end of Oct. 1613, £3* Not one doet. of phys. was admitted this year. Doctors of Divinity. Jul. 6. Leonard Tayler of C. C. coll. Mar. 23. Tho. Aubrey of Ch. Ch.—He accumulated the degrees in divinity. Incorporations. July 10. Francis Meres M. A. of Cambridge.—This per ¬ son, who was the son of Tho. Meres of Kirton in Holland in the county of Lincoln, was about this time a minister and school-master, and afterwards author of a noted school¬ book called Wits Commonwealth, part the second. Lond. easily vnderstand him. Ilee told me that they differ from the Romish church in some points of doctrine, especially about purgatorv, for that they utterly reject; neyther doe they attribute to the pope the title of oecumeni¬ cal or vninersall bishop that the Romanists doe. Also in his parley betwixt him and me, be made worthy mention of two English men, which did euen tickle my heart with ioy. l or it was a great comfort vnto me to lieare my country men well spoken of by a Grcekish bishop. Hee much praised Sir Henry It’otten, our ambassador in Venice, for his rare learning, and that not without great desert, as all those doe know that haue tried his excellent partes: and he commended one Mr. Samuel Slade ■vnto me, a Dorset-shire man borne, and one of the fellowes of Merton colledge in Oxford, but now a famous traueller abroad in the world; for I met him in Venice. The Gre¬ cian commended him for his skill in the Greeke tongue, and told mee, that he had communicated vnto him some manuscript fragments of S. Chrysostoms Greeke workes, the fruites whereof I hope we shall one day see,’ Cmjat's CruditieSy ed, 4to. page 229.} 1598, oct.3 The first part was put out by N. L. He hath also published God's Arithmetic. Serm. on Eccles. 4. 9. Lond. 1597-oct. [Bodl. 8vo. A. 65.4 Th.] and Sinner's Guide, of the whole Regiment of Christian Life, &c. printed 1614, qu. &c. and translated into English, The Devotions of Lewis of Granada. Lond. 1598, oct.6 Whieh is all I know of him,5 only that he was grandfather to Rob. Meres- D. D. and chancellor of the church of Lincoln. Jul. 10. Gilb. Bourne doct. of the laws of the university of Orleance.—He was nephew to Gilb. Bourne sometimes bishop of B. and Wells, being son of his brother Rich. Bourne of Wyvelscombe in Somersetshire, which is all I know of him; only that his testimonial for his degree in the said university, dated in a congregation celebrated there, [147j 8 June 1583, was subscribed by Maximilian de Cobham, Tertullian Pine doct. of the civil law (lately of St. John’s coll, in Oxon) George Talbot, Giles Wroughton, Nich. Wilson and George Manwaring, English-men, that also he was vicar-general to the bishop of B. and Wells, and dying in Decemb. or thereabouts, an. 1595, was buried in the cath. church of St. Andrew in Wells, near the body of his sometimes wife. Jan. 28. Joh. Pilkington M. A. of Cambridge,7 of whom I know no more.—One of both his names ivho was batch, of divinity, was collated by his brother Jam. Pilkington bi¬ shop of Durham, to the archdeaconry thereof, upon the resignation of Joh. Ebden, 5 Dec. 1563, and dying 16 Sept. 1581, was buried in the cathedral church at Durham.? 3 [Palladis Tamia. Wits Treason;. Being the second part of Wits Common- mealth. By Francis Meres Maister erf Artes cf both Vniuersities. Vivitur ingenio, cretera mortis erunt. At London &c. 1598. pp. 340. small oct. Another edi¬ tion 1634, to which an engraved title was added as Witts Academy, a Treasurie of Goulden Sentences, &c. 1636. It was intended as the second part to the Politeuphia, or Wits Common wealth, &c. 1597, a collection of prose sentences from ancient writers, compiled by John Bodenham and put forth under the initials of the publisher Nicholas Lyng. Of this last work the eighteenth edition was printed 1661. Bodenham compiled another work of similar cha¬ racter called Wits Theatre of the little World; printed by J. R. for N. L. &c. 1599. As also Belvidere or the Garden of the Muses, 1600, again 1610, con¬ taining sentences in verse, but he is better known by that tasteful selection of poems called England’s Helicon, 1600, again 1614, and reprinted 1812- Haslewood.] 4 [Gods Arithmeticke, written by Francis Meres, maister of arte of both Vniuer¬ sities and student in Divinity. (Quotations from Hebr. 13 & August, in Psalm 99 in Latin) Printed at London by Richard Johnes, 1597. oct. sig. C. ‘ The epistle nuncupatorie’ addressed ' to the right worshipfull M. John Meres esquire, high sheriffe of Lincolneshier, Francis Meres wisheth the true felicity of this life, and eternall happines in the other.’ Wherein the writer, after a long dissertation apposite to the subject of his sermon, says of bis discourse that he doth—‘ wholy dedicate and bequeath both the censure of it and of my selfe to your religious and vertuous patronage : hauing a longing desire to make knowne your worships curtesies extended to mee at your house at Au- borne, your forwardnes in preferring my successelesse suit to maister Lau¬ rence Meres of Yorke, sometimes of h 1- majesties counsell established for the North, and your willingnes and readines for my longer abode and stay at Cambridge.’ Dated: ‘From my chamber in Saint Marie, Buttolph-lane, neere London-stone, this 10 of October, 1597, your worships wbolie to com- maund. Francis Meres.’ Haslewood.] b [Granados Devotion. Exactly teaching how a Man may trvely dedicate and denote himself vnto God : and so become his acceptable votary. Written in Spa¬ nish, by the learned and reuerend Drain e F. Lewes of Granada. And now pe¬ rused, and Englished, by Francis Meres, Master• of Artes, and student in Divinity. London &c. 1598 p p. 576 besides tables A dedication: same size as Pal- ladis Tamia & dedicated ‘ to the worshipfvll and vertvovs gentleman M. Wil¬ liam Sammes of the Middle Temple esquire.' subscribed ‘ London the xi of May 1598, your worships most denoted Francis Meres.’ IIaslewood.] 6 [Meres was originally of Pembroke hall, Cambridge: became B. A. in 1587, and M. A. in 1:591. About 1602 he occurs rector of Wing in Rutlanc?, and died there, in the 81st year of bis age, 1646. Farmer’s Essay on the Learning of Shakspeare—Works of Sbakspeare, ed. 180 a, ii. 82.] 7 [Jo. Pilkington coll. Jo. admiss. in matric. acad. Cant. Jun. 26, 1583- Joh. Pilkington coll. Chr. A. B. an. 1586-7. Baker.] 8 [Joh Pilkington A. M. coll, ad preb. de Mapesbury 10 Febr. 1559, per deprivat. John Harpsfidd. Joh. Ebden ep. cler. eand. 13. Nov. 1562 per re¬ sign. Pilkington. llcg. Lond. Ken net.]
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